Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-17
women.s Work and WAYS.

notable person III the world is to be found ID
her albums.
According to London Life, the German
Empress Augusta has for many years been
| under the massage treatment at the hands VI q
| Siesian peasant woman.
The oldest maid in the world has been dis
| covered in France. She is 100 years old, and
was IN her teens when Napoleon passed
| through her native village, Auch.
Miss Carey Thomas. the Dean of the new
female college at Bryn Mawr, took her degree
| at the University of Zurich. This degree Is
conferred only once in ten years.
Those who own hen roosts will do we'll to
watch them even if ALA did come out.
When q man becomes firmly convinced that
| he is genius it is then that the fringe slowly
begins to form on the bottom of his trousers
legs.
Countryman: ''Two plates of raw oysters"
| Waiter: Eyes, sir, on the half shell?" mo,
l want the whole shell or none"
Preferred stocl1-Jerseys Holsteins, Guern
seys, Angus Shorthorn, Ayrshire or Devon,
| according to prejudice.
The proposition to substitute an electric
shock for the gallows doesn't seem to Ketch
He: "Does 90 love 90 ducky?" She:
''Epps." He: "'Tiss I den." Both "Oh,
how tweet."
A professional pelmist says a person can
never tell lie with his hand shut. He can't
with his mouth shut, either. Palmistry, it
| will be seen, is great study.
"What is your business, sir" "Im a
boarding house barber?" "a what?" ga
clearinghouse barber" But [ don't under
stand" "Why, [ shave the butter"
An East End grocer got a new pair of scales
and drew large crowds to his store by putting
out sign reading: Pretty girls given a
| weigh.
Grandma lat Boston symphony concert
when the leader raps his baton and the buzz
of conversation su idenly ceases) -'Why, just
listen to the hush -
Agnes Lambert sends forth q touching ap-
| peal for the lepers of the Island of MOlOkai.
These exiled people welcome the veriest tribes
which are within the power of the least of US
| TO bestow.
A new employment for women is suggested
| by Mr.. A. j. Harvey. who does not see why
| they should not tune their own pianos, and
also find suitable and remunerative work in
| tuning the pianos of others.
: What women may do is illustrated by the
female employees, numbering $50, of the Man
| chester Postal Telegraph, who recently held Il
bazaar in aid of st. Mary's Hospital. Their
| first days sales amounted to $1,000.
During the last eight years the Empress
| Augusta has presented the gold cross and in
| signia bearing the imperial autograph, upon
| 1156 women servants who have completed the
required forty years of unbrollen service in
one family.
| The work of collecting engravings, photo
graphs and other representations Of the works
| of Raphael, to which the Prince Consort de-
voted himself with great assiduity, is con-
| tinued by the Queen. The collection will COM
| priSA ahOut seventy lortrn NnluOaS
''Will you go tobogganing?" asked Charley
| "I'm afraid you want to let me slide" replied
Clara, archy We'll, if you go you will be
| sure to win breach-of-prOmse suit: you will
| have so many witnesses to prove | was after
| you"
| At dinner party in Boston young man.
who was visiting from the west was asked if
| he was fond of ethnology. "Well, ye-es," he
replied at venture, but don't think I'll
| take any tonight"
Wfe-'I don't see how you can say that
Mr.. WhitechOker has All efeminate way of
talking; he has very loud voice" Husband
81 mean by an effeminate way of talking,
my dear, that he talks all the time"
Washington Barber Stranger in these
parts?' Customer-"Yes. I've been here two
days, and all I've got left is $1.53; how much
do owe your" ''Shave, hair cut, boot black;
| just 81. SO, sir.
''Do you know why toboggan slide is
| bound to be a grand SUGGEST" asked the snake
| editor "NO," replied the horse editor; "whv?''
Because there is no slipping up on it."
''You are picturing rather gloomy future
| for me. madame he said to the fortune teller.
Eyes, sir, she replied, 'but it's the best can
DO for half dollar"
| A compostor in the United States is sup
posed to have died violent death IN the day
haf,p IL,
| Gifts i'll New Lights" and it appeared in print
"Old Girls in New Tights. The compositor
! is supposed to have mistaken the editorial for
all article on the ballet.
! Nine De Sails is preparing a new work on
culinary art. It's advent is looked for with
| pleasure by gourmets and cooks alike.
The Christian Register predicts that when
| Harvard celebrates its 500th anniversary the
women will sit with the graduates in the lower
| tier; will wear gowns without trains) among
the Faculty on the platform, and will rise
| among the distinguished guests to receive the
| honors of the university
Boston has gymnasium exclusively for the
use OF women. 1t has six bowling alleys n
| tennis court, gymnasium hail. running
| track of twenty laps to the mile, hot and cold
| water baths, etc. 1t was projected by Miss
| Mary Allen, who has for years been a de-
voice of physical culture. 1t is we'll patronized
Mrs hauuCck OF Iowa, IN her paper on
women as Landlords" read at the Women 5
| Congress in Louisville, estimates that 1000
women own and manage farms in her own
| State, while In Oregon women farmers are so
| numerous that they excite no comment The
number of women landowners is increasing
| all over the Union.
| According to a German newspaper n num-
Der of women i'll Prussia propose to make new
! TRANSACTIONS of both the Old and the New
| Testament to the end that certain passages
that bear very hard on the women may be
rendered more correctly than mans jealousy
and partiality have yet permitted. Several
| translators have been appointed, but as they
| have only just begun their Hebrew and Greek
| studies the confusion of man may be some
time delayed.
1t seems that the idea of atte1 pting to
defeat nature by going without food is in no
sense novelty Notes and Queries cites an
instance which occurred in 1867, during the
| reign of Edward III, of woman who was
consigned to Nottingham Prison for life for
the murder of her husband who held herself
without food OF drink for forty days Her